The solution to the professional indemnity insurance difficulties described by Jonathan Jacobs (see [2009] Letters, 24 September, 9) is to resurrect the Solicitors Indemnity Fund. The SIF regime may have had its faults but it was greatly preferable to what we have now.

Meanwhile, the Law Society is not to be blamed for the insurance difficulties. The fault lies with the profession itself for having voted against SIF when given the chance. However, there should now be another referendum on the subject.

Paul Hemelryk, Moore Brown & Dixon, Tewkesbury